Posted on 09/03/2014 5:00:22 PM PDT by Bon of Babble
A white homeowner who gunned down an unarmed 19-year-old black woman on his porch last year has been sentenced to at least 17 years in prison.
Theodore Wafer was convicted of second-degree murder in August for killing Renisha McBride outside his home in Dearborn Heights in Detroit, Michigan home in the early hours of November 2.
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” You can’t just blast through the door at someone pounding.”
It’s the Joe Biden home defense.
I shot a Moose once with my sister. She wasn’t hurt. But she dropped her cheese. I think it stunned her bieber.?
If only one of the other homeowners whose houses she visited would have called 911, she would still be alive.
No he wouldn’t, in Texas he would have been convicted as well.
The Daily Mail - as usual. The National Enquirer of Europe.
Shot Ted in back 19 times out on the old porch.
“If he’d been in Texas, he’d be reading this from his easy chair.”
Gotta disagree there. He shot through a closed screen door and she was not attempting to enter his house, steal anything, or was making threats of any kind.
“If he’d been in Texas, he’d be reading this from his easy chair.”
No so long ago a jury in Texas convicted a homeowner for doing almost the exact same thing and sentenced him to 20 years.
Really? It's said that she was seriously drunk.Women who are seriously drunk are usually floppy rather than aggressive.The fact that she was "banging" on the door doesn't necessarily mean she was in an aggressive frame of mind.It could have meant that she was frightened and confused.
Just sayin'....
If someone banging on your door and you are scared, don’t open it, call police.
If the person banging on your door opens your door, well then...
I would not have opened my door and fired outside my house.
That seems like a dangerous and stupid thing to do.
Now, in the US we are hearing over and over that he died in gunfire, not even that a “stray bullet hit the child” but that the child was “killed with gunfire”.
Conversely, never EVER pound on a complete stranger's door in the middle of the night or the early morning hours. You might get shot.
As I understand the story, everyone involved behaved stupidly. She crashed her car while drunk and was still drunk and erratic three hours later when she pounded on his door, at 2:30 am. He opened his front door to an erratic drunk and then fired his shotgun through the screen door rather than closing a solid door and dialing 911, again at 2:30 am. Both lives were ruined because of their stupidity. It’s sad how expensive the lessons are if you don’t learn from small mistakes when you’re younger.
LOL! Someone laid this dead black girl on his porch and he just decided to shoot her to make sure she was dead.
“They” say that in Texas if you find your wife getting railed by your neighbor in your bed you can shoot them both.
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